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Sets out to answer a question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? This book looks at both historical and contemporary attitudes to women. It deals with the fundamentals of human existence - sex, love, violence - t... Lees verder

"looks Not Just At Developments In The West But Also At The Other Great Historiographical Traditions In Asia, The Middle East, And Elsewhere In The Non-western World Over The Course Of The Past Two And A Half Centuries"--provided By The Publisher. Lees verder

Some Of The Most Exciting, And Innovative, Legal Scholarship Over The Past Few Decades Has Been Driven By Historical Curiosity. This Handbook Offers A Fascinating Compendium Of Methodological Studies From The Field Of Legal History. Lees verder

Illuminated History Books In The Anglo-norman World Examines Surviving Medieval Manuscripts From 1066 To 1272 And The People And Processes Involved In Their Creation. It Addresses The Reception And Circulation Of Histories, And The Different Ways In Which Imagery And Text Could Be Used To Create Nua... Lees verder

The Purpose Of This Handbook Is To Analyse And Explore The Evolution Of Management; The Core Functions And How They May Have Changed; Its Position In The Culture Of Modern Society; The Institutions And Ideologies That Support It; And Likely Challenges And Changes In The Future. Lees verder

Public History Is A Large And Complex Field, With Boundaries, Methods, And Subjects That Are Hotly Debated, And The Oxford Handbook Of Public History Reflects These Complexities. This Book Defines Public History As A Transnational Field, And Public History Work As Analytical And Active: Practical Wo... Lees verder

Sheds light on the world of the witch, mage and necromancer. This work takes us into a shadowy landscape where, in an age before modern drugs, the onset of sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent spellcasting. It presents an account of this aspect of the western cultural experience. Lees verder

Postmodernist Thinkers Consider History To Be Not Very Far Removed From A Work Of Fiction, Something Dependent On Historians' Own Interpretations Of The Past. Evans, However, Argues That We Can Trust History And It Is Possible To Be Objective About What Happened And What Caused It To Happen. Lees verder

Rituals, as universal modes of human action, are always evaluated and criticized. Humans seem to need rituals, but they also reject them. Criticism is an inevitable part of ritual traditions, and is often even part of a ritual itself. Denial and critique are forms of relation, albeit defined in nega... Lees verder

Max Weber as a sociologist of music?
Scrutinising an array of nineteenth-century discourses on the concept of 'development' in music, Ana Petrov focuses on Max Weber's theory of rationalisation in music, which led him to see 'rationalised' music as the most 'developed', the most 'complex' and the 'b... Lees verder

"sources Are The Raw Material Of History, But Whereas The Written Word Has Traditionally Been Seen As The Principal Source, Historians Have Now Recognized The Value Of Sources Beyond Text. In This New Edition Of History And Material Culture, Contributors Consider A Range Of Objects--from An Eighteen... Lees verder

This Book Explores The Dynamics Of Anglo-australian Cricketing Relations Within The `british World' In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries. It Explores What These Interactions Can Tell Us About Broader Anglo-australian Relations During This Period And, In Particular, The Evolution Of A... Lees verder